Project Introduction Objective Problem Statement

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Project Introduction

Vehicles are the most important assets for human nowadays. Without vehicles it is hard to do their routine going to the place they want. But, in order to rush, users are forgetting about speed limit that has been stated especially in school area. As we know the speed limit of school area is 30KMH which is mostly people know about it but just ignore it. Nowadays there are a lot of accidents cases occur in Malaysia. Every year the number of accident using cars increase. The biggest factor that cause the accidents happened is speed. Even though the government had limited the speed but driver just ignore the limit that have been state. To make citizen aware of their speed while driving is hard because everybody is busy chasing time. This project considered is to develop a vehicle speed sensing to help drivers aware about the speed limit especially in school area. With this warning system, driver will know if they had exceeded the speed limits of school area. LCD display will be used to for display the warning for the driver. In this chapter will be state and explain the objective, problem statement, scope of project, significant of study and thesis organization for this project.

1.2 Objective

The objectives of this project are: i. To develop a speed sensing system in school area ii. To warn a road user whom exceed the speed limits from 25KmH to 30KmH in gated community area during school hours.

1.3 Problem Statement

Over speeding especially in school zone during school hours is both dangerous to perpetrator, school children and other road users. The speed limit in school zone is 25kmh to 30kmh during the school hours. Very often, the perpetrator is unaware that he or she has exceeded this speed limit, because they just speeding to other place without considering other road users. After the learning session finish, student mostly just passing the road regardless of the vehicle speed. There also some of student whom like to chase each other by the roadside. So as a driver, we must be alert to this situation to avoid us knocking them. By speeding at the school area it not just dangerous to the children but also to the parent whom waiting for their children at the end of learning session. Some of them maybe use motorcycle, so if any accident happened it also may affect them. There are many cases of accidents occurred because of over speed problems in school area. Examples of cases of the problem as follows: 1. Vehicle speeding front of the school [8] KUALA NERANG - Ketiadaan garisan kuning keselamatan di hadapan Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Tampoi SKBT menimbulkan kebimbangan kepada waris murid akan kejadian kemalangan yang mungkin berlaku. Yang Dipertua Persatuan Ibu Bapa dan Guru-Guru PIBG SKBT, Saidi Hamid, 49, berkata, pihaknya berharap pihak berkuasa dapat meletakkan garisan keselamatan itu kerana bimbang dengan kenderaan yang melalui hadapan sekolah yang dipandu terlalu laju. Katanya, keadaan ini bertambah serius apabila lebuh raya dari Durian Burung ke Pokok Sena sudah hampir siap dan jalan semakin lebar menyebabkan banyak kenderaan yang melalui kawasan itu. “Kemalangan di kawasan itu sering berlaku tetapi sehingga kini belum ada lagi yang membabitkan kemalangan maut. Bagaimanapun PIBG mengharapkan pihak berkuasa dapat meletakkan garisan keselamatan supaya dapat mengurangkan kelajuan kenderaan di situ. “Jalan itu merupakan laluan utama dari Padang Terap ke Alor Setar dan ini menyebabkan pelbagai jenis kenderaan melaluinya,” katanya. Sementara itu, bekas Yang Dipertua PIBG SKBT, Osman Yasin berkata, masalah ini sudah dimaklumkan kepada pihak berkuasa sejak lima tahun lalu tetapi sehingga sekarang tiada sebarang tindakan diambil. Menurutnya, sehingga kini tidak ada papan tanda memaklumkan kepada pengguna jalan raya di situ bahawa terdapat murid sekolah melintas. “Memang kecewa kerana tiada maklum balas dari pihak berkuasa kerana kenderaan yang lalu di situ sangat laju apatah lagi jalan itu sudah dinaiktarafkan sebagai lebuh raya. Oleh itu saya merayu kepada pihak bertanggungjawab supaya dapat meletakkan garisan keselamatan demi murid di sekolah itu,” katanya. 2. Form 4 students’ dead after send his friend to school [9] DUNGUN – Seorang pelajar tingkatan empat tidak mungkin melupakan tragedi sahabatnya maut dirempuh kereta Perodua Kancil selepas menghantarnya ke sekolah di Kilometer 73.9, Jalan Kuala Terengganu- Kuantan semalam. Dalam tragedi pada pukul 7.20 pagi di hadapan Sekolah Menengah Teknik di sini, Ahmad Zikri Zaharudin, 16, pelajar tingkatan empat itu meninggal dunia di tempat kejadian selepas menghantar rakan sebayanya, Muhammad Faizal Yusri Mohd. Shaali ke sekolah itu. Kejadian tersebut berlaku selepas Faizal turun daripada motosikal di depan sekolah manakala mangsa pula sedang membuat pusing U untuk pulang. Cerita Faizal, mangsa yang tinggal sekampung dengannya di Kampung Balai Besar kira-kira dua kilometer dari sekolah tidak ke sekolah semalam kerana demam. Bagaimanapun, dalam keadaan tidak sihat mangsa berkeras menghantar Faizal ke sekolah .

1.4 Scope of Project